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Disputing the curtail by the FAA of the Block Aircraft Registration Request, or BARR, program. (www.nytimes.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
For once I agree with Obama administration. (That hasn't happened very often.) If you're going to use the publically-financed ATC system and take your noisy, carbon-spewing machine through our airspace, then you shouldn't be afraid to hide your identity. And I say that as a pilot. I got so sick of the AOPA's demands for special treatment for GA pilots and aircraft -- at no cost of course -- that I canceled my membership. The "entitlement" mentality is out of control in our society these days.
@indy2001, this argument will go on forever with no winners. I don't agree with the administration on this and very little else for that matter. As the article notes, the government gathers a plethora of information about all of us, notably IRS and state DMV's, and that information is not made available to the public. Every company has their reasons for wanting blocking, as noted by Boyd Bros. trucking in the article. While not having a corporate plane, I am in the trucking business, and the reasons given there are very much on the nose. In the end, it may or may not make a difference, but it is simply the fact that it would be available. It ain't nobody else's business!! You said it pains you to agree with the OBAMA administration. I can't remember ever being on the same side as the ACLU until now.
Wayne you took all I could say and said it better so I guess all I can do now is to agree with you. By the way when do you fly the private 767 again.
Don't know just yet. Things were fairly slow during the summer. I was on call for a couple of weeks to cover some vacations but it seems everybody else was off too I guess. Kinda glad I didn't go anyway the way the weather has been out here. Drought everywhere then the Jet moved South and we had 3 straight days of late evening squall lines. No tornadoes but
60 to 80 mph strait line winds and you never seen squall lines come together and move that fast. I am 75 miles East of FSM, and normally a system will take about 3 hrs to cover that distance. These took less than an hour. Only one came thru before midnite and we had a total 2hr power loss. The other bad one came thru about 330am, and we were out of power all day, until about 7pm. I'll let you know when I go up again.
60 to 80 mph strait line winds and you never seen squall lines come together and move that fast. I am 75 miles East of FSM, and normally a system will take about 3 hrs to cover that distance. These took less than an hour. Only one came thru before midnite and we had a total 2hr power loss. The other bad one came thru about 330am, and we were out of power all day, until about 7pm. I'll let you know when I go up again.
Ill agree with wayne- im actually on the same side as the ACLU now :o scary
Say Wayne, why don't you move to Florida where our new Republican Governor Scott just authorized the sale of all driver's license numbers and other personal data to whomever has the money to pay for it. It sounds like he is being corporate friendly again to all his donors. By the way, this is the same person whose healthcare company was fined BILLIONS of dollars by the Federal government for ripping off Medicare.
As for the Boyd Bros and others who want to remain incognito, that is very easy. All they have to do is sell their corporate jet and rent a different charter company plane each time they want to spy on their truckers and carry out no notice inspections. No one would be the wiser since the N-number would be different each trip, unless they have a spy in their own headquarters who records and reports to everyone the tail number of the aircraft they boarded.
As for the Boyd Bros and others who want to remain incognito, that is very easy. All they have to do is sell their corporate jet and rent a different charter company plane each time they want to spy on their truckers and carry out no notice inspections. No one would be the wiser since the N-number would be different each trip, unless they have a spy in their own headquarters who records and reports to everyone the tail number of the aircraft they boarded.